High Marq Environmental Charter School

High Marq Environmental Charter School is a tiny high school in Montello, Wisconsin, overseen by Montello School District. The school serves 33 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so High Marq Environmental Charter School sits 93% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Montello School District, which oversees 4 schools and 571 students, High Marq Environmental Charter School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, High Marq Environmental Charter School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest reads as 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Marquette County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), High Marq Environmental Charter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.1%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Marquette County put median household income runs about $65,681, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Marquette County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,592 students), of which High Marq Environmental Charter School is one.

Forest Lane Community School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around High Marq Environmental Charter School. On composite proficiency, High Marq Environmental Charter School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting. As a public charter, High Marq Environmental Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. High Marq Environmental Charter School's enrollment has climbed 10% since 2018, when it stood at 30 (now 33). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

On the community side, members of the High Marq Environmental Charter School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.